Chris Hoina Senior Product Manager @ Oracle Database Tools
Since ORDS first introduced support for authenticating with JWTs, there have been many questions surrounding configuration and testing. In this example, I cover, from start to finish: If this sounds like what you are looking for, then read on. There’s a lot to cover here, so there’s no faffing about on this one. Let’s go! … Read more
A new feature An ORDS user (or application) can now upload multiple files as part of a multipart/form-data POST request under various conditions. How can this be achieved with an ORDS endpoint? NOTE: Before you continue, it might be helpful to refresh your memory on, or learn more about multipart/form-data as a Content-Type. Details here. … Read more
Overview There’s plenty to talk about in this release. However, I’m most excited about the performance improvements, ORDS sample applications, and documentation changes. Read on to get the whole story. Enhancements API Performance REST API responses from either AutoREST or customer based modules could see as much as a 30% improvement in response times. About … Read more
How do I “kill” an ORDS process? FYI: This was all done on a MacBook, so…this may differ on a PC or Linux machine. Apologies m’Lord… Here are the options I’ve found to “kill” an ORDS process: It looks like we’ve included in our docs how to start ORDS (with the ords serve command), but … Read more
About this article This article is a walkthrough and overview of setting up the example Java plugin that ships with ORDS. These plugins allow you to add functionalities and capabilities above what is possible with a standard ORDS configuration. In this example, the plugin allows you to use a name as a query parameter in an HTTP … Read more
Are you going? If so, great! I’ve taken the liberty of hand-picking and listing the sessions where our team will be: The sessions I’m most excited about are the two ORDS-based sample applications. We have one that our development team created (that’s the React one) and another Python one that was mostly (with a lot … Read more
NOTE: This can be thought of as a “companion piece” to the official ORDS release notes 🤓. What is new in Oracle REST Data Services 24.2? New HTTPS Response Status Codes In response to various support requests and internal feedback, we’ve expanded on the existing ORDS Status Codes (the current list can be found here)! … Read more
I’m trying to be as succinct as possible. I just accomplished this but couldn’t find anything that explicitly walked me through how to do it. Here are some assumptions: REMINDER: You are signed in to a Linux machine! The commands you will follow (in GitHub or here) WILL NEED TO BE FOR LINUX! What happened? … Read more
EXTRA EXTRA! ORDS now supports JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). You can find most of the details in the OAuth PL/SQL Package Reference chapter of the ORDS Developer’s Guide. ORDS JWT OAUTH parameters You’ll notice two new procedures in that package: OAUTH.CREATE_JWT_PROFILE and OAUTH.DELETE_JWT_PROFILE. After getting acquainted with them, I wanted to highlight three parameters of … Read more
For…reasons, I needed a way to retrieve all the .CSV files in a regional bucket in Oracle Cloud Object Storage, located at this address: https://objectstorage.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/n/dwcsprod/b/moviestream_data_load_workshop_20210709/o You can visit it; we use it for one of our LiveLabs (this one), so I’m sure it will stay live for a while 😘. Once there, you’ll see all … Read more